Jesse Newton 'Jack' Yoakum-11684
JESSE NEWTON "JACK" YOAKUM
Jack Yoakum passed away December 21, 2004 at the Barone Alzheimer Care Center in Nevada, MO where he had been a resident for three years. He was 85 years old. Funeral services will be at 2:00 PM Sunday, December 26 at Hackleman Funeral Home in El Dorado Springs, MO, with burial in Skyway Memorial Gardens in Palmetto, FL where he had lived during most of his retirement years.
Jack was born October 7, 1919 in Cowgill, Missouri to John Franklin Yoakum (22-Jan-1875 to 7-Jun-1957) and Mary Josephine Cheek (23-May-1878 to 15-Jun-1972). He was a veteran of the U.S. Army and served in Italy from 1944 to 1946. Jack worked for Armco Steel in Kansas City for 32 years retiring in 1978. He married Lena Shumate and to this union one child was born. Jack was a country music fan and played the steel guitar, dobro, and harmonica and also enjoyed gardening and boating.
He is preceded in death by his second wife, Faye, and three sisters; and is survived by his daughter Bev Janes of El Dorado Springs, MO; three grandsons, Randall Hardie of Independence, MO, Kenneth Hardie of Caldwell, ID, and John Hardie of Nevada, MO; 7 great-grandchildren, 2 step great-grandchildren, and 2 great-great-grandchildren.Source: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~blogan/v8n2.html